And this is not all; for the servants and panders of the parasites are also parasites, the milliners and the jewelers and the lackeys have also to be supported by the useful members of the community.

Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

I wasn’t concerned with the parasites of office and laboratory.

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

Meanwhile, the connection between them grows ever stronger, a parasitic growth.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

In short, Disdaining tendrils of the parasite, To be content, if neither oak nor elm— Not to mount high, perchance, but mount alone!

Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac

"So are you all just going to hang out with the parasites for the rest of your lives?" he demanded.

Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn

No hand had checked their progress, and they had gone native now, rearing to monster height without a bloom, black and ugly as the nameless parasites that grew beside them.

Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca

He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat.

Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

Hunger clung to them like a relentless parasite, gnawing at their bellies, devouring their strength, and sapping their will to continue.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

The guilt filling the whole of Harry’s chest like some monstrous, weighty parasite, now writhed and squirmed.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

Yann Martel -- Life of Pi

The Fox Brothers Circus has just collapsed, and Uncle Al is ecstatic because they employed the world-famous Charles Mansfield-Livingston, a handsome, dapper man with a parasitic twin growing out of his chest.

Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants

She became more and more impatient of acting and another parasite found its way into her mind.

Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Disgusting parasites.

Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse

BLOOM: Rosemary also did I understand you to say or willpower over parasitic tissues.

James Joyce -- Ulysses

He’s dirty and smelly, and his ragged wings harbor parasites.

Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Those parasites were such morons, they counted worse than any herdsman.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

But here in Mr. Gower’s hands I become other—a parasite on her body, no longer of her mind.

Joy Kogawa -- Obasan

"Our parasites"; she remembered how Vronsky had said that.

Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

A little later the only Warsaw newspaper published in Polish by the Germans provided an official comment on this subject: not only were the Jews social parasites, they also spread infection.

Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist

We also try to combat parasites in our own bodies in the form of bacteria.

Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie’s World

And he thought then about the Guild — the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed.

Frank Herbert -- Dune

In those days, there was a shortage of chemical fertilizers in Japan, so farmers were using night soil, and as a consequence many people began to harbor parasites, which were not fatal in themselves but were seriously debilitating to those who had had radiation sickness.

John Hersey -- Hiroshima

Captain Nemo’s treasures were enhanced by some valuable exhibits from the delphinula snail species, to which I joined some pointed star coral, a sort of parasitic polypary that often attaches itself to seashells.

Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Nor have you, O poor parasite and humble hanger-on, much reason to complain!